When they filled the German Bight they moved on to dropping it round Africa…to the point where Somali's have radioactive storm tides…that's the real reason they put to speed boats to chase the foreign boats and try to win some recompense..

story I got 53North, was Italian organized crime contracted through other EU members to safely dispose of 'toxic' waste. They shipped it along the African coast and the rest is history. There were even incidents where toxic wastes were trucked inland and disposed within the jungles. Within Italy itself, the mob injected unknown quantities of toxic wastes into deep wells. Now, most of the water coming from the adjacent and interconnected aquifers is deadly. All of these fools have condemned their own children to agonizing deaths.

if they are still intact, either pump them out down there, or try and hump the barrels back up in a cask, and put them into better storage. Good part is the short lived stuff is gone, but the longer lived stuff will need vitrification and storage

That would require two things that have ceased to exist on this planet:

1. A responsible party that admits responsibility

2. Wage-earning, middle-class taxpayers to milk for cleanup expenses

Governments are focused on self-preservation, bread and circuses. My pet monkey is getting job offers from all over the world (circus-related, but a few government jobs as well). I don't mind, but he uses a damned annoying ringtone and it's LOUD. Stupid half-deaf monkey.

depends on their condition patb2009. If they're standard gauge steel drums, they'll likely rupture. The best approach would be a mechanical system that surrounds the drum and digs beneath it in a cradling motion. At the same time, high-capacity pumps would draw in the surrounding water while the system's being raised to the surface. Aside from the technical challenges, you'd have to have a waiting barge that has the capacity to store any drawn water that's determined to be highly contaminated. This water would be filtered (as best as it can be) and returned to the ocean.

Regarding the vitrification issue: I read recently where they failed to bring such a process-plant online. Think it is located at Hanford. I'm a big proponent of this concept. I know they're up-against some major material-science challenges in bringing a working system online. But if they succeeded, we'd be half-way home towards a solution to the devastating consequences of nuclear power technologies…

Vitrifacation has not worked it will break up after several years, dry cast seems good but is very costly, after a period of time can be stored at a good distance apart. This uses a lot of realty, again adding great cost plus security and supervision. They will have to bite the bullet and do it. guess who will not pay for this and who will. These costs will not be included in costs of nuclear power.

I have been left with crumbs, and never had children, because I would want my children to be secure. I am now glad that I have none. I worry about yours. Filthy lying worthless 1 percent . Enjoy your 1000 inch high-definition images of a planet dying. While I have to worry about getting pulled over for just a seatbelt. This world blows. and sucks. Hope your children live long lives to enjoy the slobber dripping from their orifices and counting their children's toes. Wow, baby girl has 35 toes look at her , ain't she cute? Tickle the toes under her armpits! Now the ones between her toes! And baby boy is crying … awww. What's wrong? OH MY … Uncle Benny!!!!!!!!!!! Come quick, baby boy's head just fell off!

scary true….we've thrown away the miracle of life for paper and metal….we have discard for money something that you can't buy with all the riches in the world….we aren't smart enough to continue as a species, the planet will be better off without us.

At some point, the U.N. did an international treaty to curtail dumping of radioactive barrels at sea. But France still dumps radioactive water into the English Channel directly through its re-processing plant, Areva. To get some idea of this problem world-wide, google "Secret Nuclear Waste: The Dark Side of Humanity" on YouTube. It's disturbing.

@WNTF
Yes, I watched a video by Criirad recently who pointed out that a pipe sent radioactive waste directly into the sea at La Hague and it was "grandfathered in" because it had been ongoing. Someone posted this video here just recently and it was over 1 1/2 hours long.

Getting weary of folks shrugging off their own humanity, saying we're all no good because its human nature to "take,it" while "they" take it from us. Actually, it's human nature to cast off the yoke, as the march of history through The Enlightnment proved. In England, as human rights were hard fought…journalists were disemboweled and their guts were set on fire in front of their eyes. We got beyond that. Some of what I'm hearing (certain only not all) sounds a lot like a circular argument in defense of doing nothing. The human race is no GD good:therefore I can "piss and moan" and call for our extinction because people like me "piss and moan" rather than do anything. Huh? Whazzat???

DannieJ said "Bullshit. All animals follow the same pattern when presented with a large resource base.
We eat; we fuck; we die off. Deal with it."

This is all true but there is one fundamental difference between animals and industrialized humans. Animals do not create garbage or toxic waste. Even when they overpopulate every thing they do feeds in to a self correcting and regulating biological stream. The consequences of their actions are much shorter lived and are not really comparable. If garbage was illegal we would be busted.

Many people in government and industry have known for years that these barrels are there. These people that have not reported this years ago should be ashamed of them selves, the governments should be demanding that all people knowing of these storage practices notify them and if they do not and found later that they did not report will be prosecuted.

The lifespan of the light emitting matter in our universe (before everything gets dark and all stars are burned out) is estimated to be around 10 billion years. The half life of Thorium 232 is 14.050.000.000 (14 billion) years. Means that long after the universe is practically dead, the shit we produced in our nuke plants is still 'glowing' (radiating). What a great technology we have. It even endures the end of the universe!

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